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Hello! Thank you so much for visiting me in the Attic, it's lovely to see you. My name is Lucy and I'm a happily married Mum with three children. We live in a cosy terraced house on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales in England which we are slowly renovating and making home. I have a passion for crochet and colour and love to share my creative journey. I hope you enjoy your peek into my colourful little world x

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November 25, 2013

A Happy Giveaway!

Well Hellooooooooo and welcome to a very colourful and happy post today, in which I am hosting my very first Giveaway. I am super-excited to be doing this and I hope that you'll love what I've got lined up for you. It's perfectly Attic24-ish, so you can expect lots and lots of creative colour with a distinctly playful and happy vibe.

So, lets talk about Rice. No, no, not the white grainy stuff, but the dynamic and brilliant Danish design company Rice DK. To say I am a huge fan is a bit of an understatement, I love this company and it's products so much. They are fun, charming, bright, happy, colourful, and altogether wonderful. If you've been bobbing into the Attic in recent months you will have heard me talk about their products, in particular the colourful melamine. I have a small and much loved collection of bowls, cups and spoons at home and in the caravan and it never fails to put a smile on my face.

Rice DK have a wonderfully inspiring website which showcases their products and gives a great insight into this ethical and genuinely lovely company. Their online catalogues are a fantastic source of happy feel good, with the most amazing styling and photography.

I borrowed these gorgeous images from Rice so that I could wow you with visual happiness....

...oh, so scrummy!!!! Those little melamine cups are just so lovely.....

....well all the melamine is really. I love it all!

Earlier this year, I was thrilled to discover that the founder of Rice DK had published her own book. I couldn't wait to get myself a copy of Charlotte's "Happy Home" and it has become one of my favourite go-to books when I fancy a bit of homey, lighthearted inspiration. Every page is a delight, and radiates colour and happiness. If you pop over to this Amazon link you can do that fabby thing where they let you browse the pages. Go have a look, you'll love it!

I thought you might like to see a few of my favourite pages, to give you a feel for the book, and the Rice style.

It's maybe a bit more "full on" than my own particular style, but I just love to imagine myself inhabiting these colourful rooms, sitting on that glorious sofa, twiddling my toes on that pompom rug, sipping something delicious from a colourful cup, and gazing at this wall...........

This book is aspirational and inspirational, and there is grade A eye candy in these pages.

Now then......we are here to do a Giveaway aren't we? So shall I show you The Happy Haul?

It's such a stunning prize, a whole big collection of Rice DK goodies (including the book!), brought to you by Rice DK (of course) and the wonderful online lifestyle company Fig1.co.uk. I first found Fig1 when I was searching for somewhere online to buy a few more Rice melamine cups in the summer. They stock almost 400 Rice products, including the whole of the fantastic melamine range. Fig1 is a real bricks and mortar shop as well as an online one, and is owned and run by the friendliest of folk. Real people who obviously love their products and care about their customers. So imagine my delight when I received an email from Mark (the owner of Fig1), asking me if I would like to offer a giveaway of Rice products on my blog. I answered YES in a heartbeat, and was then even more bowled over when I received this picture..............

Wow!!!!! Just.......WOW!!!! This is the glorious, generous prize up for grabs :: £150 worth of Rice DK Christmas goodies. Mark from Fig1 styled and photographed this little lot especially for Attic24, and the very sight of all that gorgeous colour and pattern makes me swoon.

The melamine cups, bowls and plates are special Christmas designs, but in all honesty they are just so pretty that I know I would use them all year round.

There are so many lovely things here :: cake tins and Christmas decorations, candles and of course the gorgeous Happy Home book.

In addition to all the Rice deliciousness, I am also going to include one of my own little crochet Lavender Birds. The lucky winner gets to choose their own colours and I will make it up especially, stuffing it's little tummy with my precious Provence Lavender.

In addition to the competition, Rice Melamine at Fig1.co.uk is offering a 10% discount on all Rice DK products at Fig1.co.uk. (ooooooooooooooooo!) Simply enter the code MY_ATTIC24 in the promotional code box on the basket page. This offer lasts for the duration of the competition, ie until Monday 1st December 2013. Again, I'm sorry to those of you overseas, but this discount is only for UK peeps.

Please pick me! (even tho I'm 927th in the queue so far :-D ) I'm packing up to move house right now and am surrounded by ugly mess and junk- I need something pretty to look forward to in my new, but very old and run-down, house. thank you. x

Hi Lucy - I was expecting the survey to ask me questions, but all I could do was make up a user name and password and then it wanted me to make up my own survey - so not sure that I've done that right? Anyway, I've left a comment on Fig 1 and now on here to say how lovely the Rice homewares are and that I love the Happy Home book and that it would be great to win some colourful goodies for my home xx

Wonderful wonderful colours and products that fit brilliantly with the Attic 24 vibe. Always comes to this blog for a bit of colourful inspiration particularly on a cold winters day. Wouldn't say no to a few of these things landing on my doorstep plus some lavender birds. Keep up the good work!

I would love to win. I'm going through a transition period just now where I would like plates amd kitchen things to be more fun, the kids really do appreciate good plates and comments on the few fancy ones I have. If I won the rice products I would be so happy.

Oh wow what a giveaway, one product would be gorgeous to win never mind a whole choice. Would certainly brighten up my day every morning to use these little bits of gorgeousness, thanks for the chance to win x

Hi Lucy. I love your blog for its realness and every day inspiration. After running around after my 3 little ones I put my feet up and luxuriate in some colourful crotchet escapism. As for the Rice products please count me in, they would be very drooled over in this busy home.

I absolutely adore your blog, but it's only reading the giveaway rules that makes me realise I haven't commented yet. I should, because reading it gives me so much colourful homey pleasure and makes me want to tuck up on my sofa and natter about life and crafts.

I'd love to have a home as gorgeous and bright as yours... winning the competition would sparkle up my day, though I suspect I'll be buying some lovely products from Fig.1 in the near future anyhow!!

I adore your blog and leave each entry with a smile and the lovely colourful Rice products would have the same lifting, cheering effect. After a truly awful year, these would be the ultimate pick me up!
Thank you Lucy :)